News release: “CDT today released a paper offering a set of principles for addressing potential privacy considerations when deploying digital watermarking technology. This technology embeds information within the content of digital media files in a form that is machine readable but often imperceptible to humans. Digital watermarking has a variety of applications and is increasingly being considered as a tool for deterring copyright infringement. CDT’s paper is intended to provide guidance for companies that plan to use the technology to communicate information that is specific to individual consumers.”
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Daily Archives: May 29, 2008
FDIC Report: Quarterly Banking Profile, First Quarter 2008
Quarterly Banking Profile: “Provides the earliest comprehensive summary of financial results for all FDIC-insured institutions. This report card on industry status and performance includes written analyses, graphs and statistical tables.” Updated 5/29/08 Continue Reading
NSTC & CCSP Release Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on the United States
News release: “The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), together with the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), today announced the release of a scientific assessment of the effects of global change on the United States, with special emphasis on climate change…Accompanying the scientific assessment is an updated research plan for the U.S. Climate Change… Continue Reading
CBO: Federal Spending on Medicare and Medicaid, Health Care and Behavioral Economics
Accounting for Sources of Projected Growth in Federal Spending on Medicare and Medicaid, May 29, 2008. “Economic and Budget Issue Brief: “According to projections by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), federal spending on Medicare and Medicaid will grow from 4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2007 to 9 percent in 2032 and 19… Continue Reading
CFTC Announces Multiple Energy Market Initiatives
News release: “The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) today announced a number of initiatives to increase transparency of the energy futures markets. The measures will expand the amount and quality of information received from energy traders to further the integrity and oversight of our nations futures markets. The recent dramatic increases in… Continue Reading
WSJ: Consumers Union to Rate Hospitals
Nonprofit Group To Add Its Rankings To Crowded Field, By Anna Wilde Mathews: “The nonprofit Consumers Union is launching a new hospital-ratings service, adding to the growing competition to provide online consumer information about health care. The effort by the publisher of the popular Consumer Reports magazine is a gamble that the credibility of the… Continue Reading
Recent CRS Reports: National Security Strategy, Science, Technology, and American Diplomacy, Mexico-U.S. Relations
Via Secrecy News: National Security Strategy: Legislative Mandates, Execution to Date, and Considerations for Congress, May 28, 2008 Science, Technology, and American Diplomacy: Background and Issues for Congress, May 22, 2008 Mexico-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress, updated May 23, 2008 German Foreign and Security Policy: Trends and Transatlantic Implications,” updated April 29, 2008 The Army’s… Continue Reading
Guidance for Homeland Security Presidential Directiv 12 Implementation
Guidance for Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) 12 Implementation (May 23 2008) (4 pages): “This document serves as a guideline to assist agencies in preparing or refining plans for incorporating the use of Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials, to the maximum extent practicable, with physical and logical access control systems.” Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Force Structure, International Food Security, Prison Construction
Department of Defense Pilot Authority for Acquiring Information Technology Services under OMB Circular A-76, GAO-08-753R, May 29, 2008 Force Structure: Ship Rotational Crewing Initiatives Would Benefit from Top-Level Leadership, Navy-wide Guidance, Comprehensive Analysis, and Improved Lessons-Learned Sharing, GAO-08-418, May 29, 2008 International Food Security: Insufficient Efforts by Host Governments and Donors Threaten Progress to Halve… Continue Reading
Myths and Facts About FEMA Housing Following Katrina
FEMA: Myths and Facts About FEMA Housing Following Katrina, May 26, 2008 Continue Reading
Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence – The U.S. Military and Counterinsurgency Doctrine, 1960-1970 and 2003-2006: RAND Counterinsurgency Study
Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence — The U.S. Military and Counterinsurgency Doctrine, 1960-1970 and 2003-2006, RAND Counterinsurgency Study — Paper 6, by Austin Long. [Note: related reports/papers are available online here] “The publication of a new counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine manual in late 2006 was widely heralded as an indication that the U.S. military was finally coming… Continue Reading
